Clear all text in TXT file

[fi3ldy]

How do i clear all of the text inside of a text file?? ive not been coding long, so im still a bit new, but struggling along successfully!

Any help appriciated, thanks!!!

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

just write "" to it in not append mode or delete it and create it again.

So long,

Mega

[fi3ldy]

thx for reply.

how do i create it again, without fileinstall again?? thx alot

if cant create again using autoit, ill just have to do filedelete and file install again

which wownt work? will it... after its compiled and on a different system, will it beable to fileinstall again?!?!

Edited December 29, 2006 by fi3ldy

[rambo3889]

filedelete("Your textfile.txt")
filewrite("Your textfile.txt","")

Think that should do it

[fi3ldy]

thx alot buddy!

[rambo3889]

Np im glad that i could help,

[herewasplato]

FileClose(FileOpen("c:\temp\test.txt", 2))

[Thatsgreat2345]

dangit plato beat me to it

[herewasplato]

dangit plato beat me to it

I got roller blades for my walker for Christmas :-)

[fi3ldy]

thx for all the help, rambo's way worked just fine for me

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

beware in both cases there will be created an empty file even if there wasn't a file before. Maybe you don't want that.

So long,

Mega

[dandymcgee]

HA! rambo beat you both

Edited December 29, 2006 by dandymcgee

[Thatsgreat2345]

Umm I meant for the method that plato used which is a Better then deleting then writing nothing to it.

[herewasplato]

Hi,

beware in both cases there will be created an empty file even if there wasn't a file before. Maybe you don't want that.

So long,

Mega

$path = "c:\temp\test.txt"
If FileExists($path) And FileRead($path) <> "" Then FileClose(FileOpen($path, 2))

I could make it one line, but then it would not post well... so two lines it is - even if one line might wrap in your display. :-) Edited December 29, 2006 by herewasplato

[herewasplato]

Umm I meant for the method that plato used which is a Better then deleting then writing nothing to it.

I'm glad that you figured that out... I pondered dandymcgee post a bit - but after all, he is "Valik's #1 Fan" :-)

@OP,

We know you have your solution - we are just playing - and showing you other (better?) ways to do what you asked for.

[dandymcgee]

uhhh.... EDIT!

Edited December 29, 2006 by dandymcgee

[fi3ldy]

calm down boys, the file WILL be there anyway as its installed at the begiining of the script, also as soon as i used FileWrite i used FileWriteLine to write the title inside, basically refreshing the text doc, its for logging...

[Zedna]

Another way:

#include <APIFileReadWrite.au3>

$path = 'C:\file.txt'
$file = _APIFileOpen( $path )
_APIFileSetPos( $file, 0 ) ; maybe this line is not neccesary
_APIFileSetEnd( $file )
_APIFileClose( $file )

[fi3ldy]

the other way tends to be alot more, "simple" for my inexperienced brain to cope with atm

[herewasplato]

What exactly are you implying by this? I was simply noting that Rambo had posted the first working solution,..

Nothin'.

It was the first time that I had noticed that custom title of yours. I just thought that I would mention it. I probably did not do so in the best manner.

It did take me a while to figure out your post, but I just wrote that off to my not feeling all that well that day (and not that much better today). Once Thatsgreat2345 posted, your post made sense to me.

As to what code is better... I was not willing to make any claims on that. That is why I put (better?) like I did. When the results are not critical and you can live without error checking, then a single line of code like that is "better" for my tastes... but like you said, it is really up to the OP to pick a solution from among those offered. I don't care if the one that I posted is not picked. The thread has a good title, so others may read it at some point in the future... it is nice to have a few coding options posted.

Thanks for all that you contribute to the forum - keep up the good work. Again, sorry if my post struck you wrong - it was not intended to do so.